Jessica Chisley has served as an
assistant coach with the Centre College women's soccer program
since 2005. A 2004 Centre graduate, Chisley holds a Bachelor of the
Arts in music. During her four-year career, Chisley was a two-sport
student-athlete – serving as a four-year starting goalkeeper
for the women's soccer team (which she captained her junior and
senior years) and a three-year starting shortstop for the softball
team. On the soccer field, she ended her career earning All-SCAC,
All-Great Lakes Region, and SCAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year
honors.

Chisley's primary responsibilities for the women's soccer
program include: instructing the team's goalkeepers and working
with the team's defense; recruiting (including on-campus and
in-home visits as well as travel); game day organization; and
coaching the program's reserve team. An 11-year veteran of the
Centre Women's Soccer Camp, Chisley is the Head Goalkeeping
Clinician. She is also a member of the Morehead State University
Women's Soccer summer camp staff where she is responsible for
instructing the goalkeepers.

Chisley's coaching career has been filled with many memorable
moments. In 2005, she was selected to the SCAC 15th-Anniversary
team. In the same year she earned her NSCAA Regional Goalkeeping
Diploma and was named the Head Girls Soccer Coach at Boyle County
Middle School. After seven years of service to the school, Chisley
retired to become the Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach at her alma
mater.

A pivotal moment in Chisley's career came in the winter of 2007
when she became a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy. An
extremely difficult program to be accepted into (hundreds apply,
but only a handful are accepted), the NCAA Women Coaches Academy
provides skills training for women coaches at all levels. Each
participant learns skills that are not sport specific, yet are
relevant and necessary for coaching responsibilities, beyond just
the X's and O's. By the end of the Academy, its graduates leave
with a renewed commitment to personal and professional growth which
honors the career responsibilities of being an Athletic Coach.
Having had this unique opportunity, Chisley considers herself both
"blessed and fortunate".

In the summer of 2008, Chisley laced up the boots one last time
and played semi-professional soccer in Virginia as a member of the
Fredericksburg Lady Gunners. Just a few months later, she would
help coach the Colonels to their first-ever National tournament
bid. In the years following, Centre would continue to experience
many successes. In 2009, Centre posted the fewest losses in a
single-season in the program's history and also broke the team's
shut-out record. This past season (2011), Centre earned their
second NCAA tournament bid and advanced into the second round of
tournament play.

Chisley is truly proud of the advances the team continues to
make and the direction in which the program is heading.